Exodus — Chapter 9

7, And Phazao fent to fee:neither was there any thing dead of that which Ifrael poffeffed.And Pharaoes hart(¢)was hardned,& he did nor difniife the people. 8. And our Lord faid to Moyfes and Aaron: Take your hands ful of afnes out of the chimney ,& let Moyles fprinkle it into the ayre betore Pharao. ¢, And be there duit vpon al the Land of AEgypt: for there fhal be in men, and beaits (d) boyles , and {welling bladders in the whole land of AEgypt. 19. And they tooke athes out of we PS. aire : and there wvere made boyles of {welling bladders in men and beafts. 11, (e) Neither could the enchanters itand before Moyfes for boyles that were vpon them, and in al-the Land of AEgypt. 12. And our Lord did indurate Pharaoes hart , and he heard them not, as our Lord fpaketo Moyfes, 13. And our Lord faid to Moyfes : Inthe morning arife., and ftand before Pharao , and thou fhale fay to him: This faith Thame wade thee Yfland ,in the o andchalice pataphrafis [ hase hept thee aliwe, Inthe Latin I hane put or set thee, that in thee, jthrongh thyne Yowne nidfice Vevey nae wae ee rie! the Lord, the God of the Hebrewes:Dimifle my people to facrifice vnto ine, 14, Becaufe this time wil {end al my plagues vpon thy hart , and vpon thy feruants, and vpon thy people : that theu maycft know there is not the like to mein.al the earth. 15. For now firciching forth my hand ! wilftrike thee, and thy people with pefiticnce , and thou shale perish trom theearth.16.And therfore (f) haue 1 ferthee,that in thee I may snew my might,& my wame may be told in al the carth.17, Doeft thou vet hold backe my people, and wilt thou not difmifle them: 18, Behold I wil raine tomorow this very houre (g) haile excecding Much 7 Rom, 9. EXODVS. much: {uch as was notin AEgypt from the day that it was tounded, vntil this prefent time. 19. Send therfore now prefently , and garher together thy cattle,and al things that thou haftin the held : for men and beafts , and al things that shal be found abroad , and not gathered togc- ther out of the fields, and the haile fal vponthem, shal die. 20. He that feared the word of our Lord of Pharaoes feruants,made his feruants to fiie ,and his beafts into houfes: zt. but he that neglected the word of our Lord, let alone his feruants, and his beafts in the fields. 22, And our Lord faid to Moy{es: Stretch forth thy hand towards heauen,that there may be haile inthe whole Land of AEgypt vpon men, and vpon beafts of AEgypt. 165 at indurate , I may make knowen my pewer to man- kind, S.e4mg.de Predeft.c Gras. c. 6, 'g) The7.plague ‘Ter: ivic hatie, (thunders and t lightnings, é and vpon euerie herbe of the fieldin the Land of AEzypr. 23. And Moyfes ftretched torth his rod toward heauen,and our Lord gaue thun- ders, and haile, and running lightnings on te land: and our Lerd rai- ned haile vpon the Land of AEgypt. 24. And the haile and fire mixt together did driue : and it was ot fo great bignes as neuer before appea- red in the whole Land of AEgypt fince that nation was made. 25. And the haile {mote in al the Land of AEgypt al things that were in the helds , from man cuen vnto bealt: and cueri¢ herbe of the field did the haile ftrike,and euerie tree of the countric it did breake. 26. Only in the Land of Geffen , where the children of I{rael were , the haile fel not,

not here any longer, 29. Moyfes faid: When I shal be gone forth out of the citie , I wil ftretch forth my hands to our Lord,and the thunders shal ceafe, and the haile shal not be : thar thou maift know thatthe carthis our Lords : 30. but 1] know that nei- ther tiiou , nor thy {eruants doe yet feare the Lord God. 31. The flaxe therfore,and the barley were hurt, becaufe the barley came vp green, & the flaxe now was boled: 32. bur the wheat,and other winter corne were not hurt,becaufe they were lateward. 33, And Moyfes going forth _ the thunders and haile ceafed , neither did there drop raine any more Vpon the earth. 34. And Pharao fecing that the raine and the haile and thunders were ceafed , he increafed nis fiane: 35. () and his hart was aggrauated, and the hart of his feruants,& indurate exceedingly neither did he difmiffe the children of If{rael, as our Lord had commanded:by the hand of Moyfes, CHAP. fron Pharao out of the citic,ftretched forth his hands to our Lord:and (b) In Hebrew Vaiach bed lithe nw vahabadaf. And he bardned his owne bavt,he o his fernanss. t) By Gods pa- tience ouer Pharao &his feruants.in not. deftroying them , their wicked mind became more obftinate, S$. eng. 9. 30,

Plinies Gott. 29.5. Greg.li, 316.20. Moral. c) Becaufe Gods feruants may not tem- porize in reli-: gion, politikes vniuftly charge them to haue bad in- jrentions, 166 ExoDvS. Placucs-

but fasleth to dee st. , ND our Lord faid to Moyies: Goe into Pharao , and fpeake to him: This faith our Lord , the God of thy ¢ Hebrewes :difmiffe my people co facrifice vnto me. . 2, And ifthou refufe , and holdeft them, 3. behold my hand fhal be vpon thy fields : and vpon thy horfes , ani affes, and camels,and oxen,and fheep, (a) a verie fore peftilence, 4.And our Lord wil makea merueile between the poffeffions of Ifrael and the poifeflions of the AEgyptians , that nothing at al perifh of thofe things that pertaineto.the children of Ifrael. 5. And our Lord hath appointed atime . faving : To morow wil our Lord doe this thing in the land,